oar
Example Sentences
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It’s like the waves, the rhythm, it takes two — you know, the two oars.
From Washington Post
The winners of the Class Day Regatta get a little pin with a gold oar and a white blade on it.
From Seattle Times
Two dozen rafts are tied up along the shore, and teams are ferrying oars, dry bags and coolers from a dirt parking lot down a 100-foot wooden ramp to the boats.
From Washington Post
“It’s disturbing that the NRC put its oar in on a policy decision that belongs to Congress,” namely, where to store nuclear waste.
From Seattle Times
He also missed watching me heroically make rogue waves with my oar to get it to go in another direction.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
